Karen, who loved my dad a lot, said Mom asked her to “take care of your father“ a request that would stand between Karen and our Suzie was the first to know that mom would die. For a time, we were motherless but my older sister, “Suzie”, was matureĮnough. So what I remember is framed by what might have and did happen in a two-family flat on the east side of Detroit - my grandparents, my dad’s parents, the Lieders - lived upstairs and we livedĭownstairs, my two sisters, Karen and Suzanne, and I, my father, Francis (Bud) and my mother, Marie, until she died. Nobody will ever say I was great at it but words were something with which IĮnjoyed wrestling well, it did more for me than struggling with the square root of 2. I was more interested in what assassination meant than math. Anthony’s School in New MathĬlass, I heard about the killing of JFK. Successor, however…and how a lot of people were upset about the Capitol being moved to Rome if they elected a Catholic president. I read that he ignored Ho Chi Minh‘s pleas to validate his country‘s independence from the French, helping to create the quagmire of Vietnam, in which I participated. I didn‘t know anything about him until years later when I was raised in the 1950s…born in 1951 to be exact…Ike was in the White House, having been the ultimate military man/victor of the war. You become an adult when you realize not only that humans have messed things up terribly but that it didn’t happen just recently and you forever wonder if your parents did you a One time you’ll come to see me but then I will be gone, that’s why it’s so important to tell yourself, carry on. Sometimes hard to capture all the moods I’ve been through, to infer a greater meaning as I wrote it, seemed inevitable to do. Notes on how I felt and the many things I’d seen, words on what I loved and how I tried to be a human being That’s why this is so important ‘cause it’s all that there will be One time you’ll come to see me but then I will be gone
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